“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” — Marcus Aurelius

“I’m so glad my window looks east into the sunrising…. It’s so splendid to see the morning coming up over those long hills and glowing through those sharp fir tops. It’s new every morning, and I feel as if I washed my very soul in that bath of earliest sunshine.” — L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“When in the fresh mornings I go into my garden before anyone is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness.” — Cecilia Thaxter

“What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!”
— Logan Pearsall Smith